Nabil Na'eem

Nabil Na'eem (1956-) was leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad from 1988 to 1992 and an Islamist politician in Egypt.

Biography
Nabil Na'eem was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1956 to a Sunni Arab family, and he became a member of the Qutbist Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement, serving as its leader from 1988 to 1992. Na'eem was imprisoned from 1991 to 2011, and he was released only after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. In 2012, he founded the centrist "Democratic Jihad Party", and he gave up violence against the state; he also supported the overthrow of the "traitor" Mohamed Morsi, claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood was a dictatorial organization that used Islam as a tool of repression.